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: a stack of hay
2
: a vertical standing wave in turbulent river waters
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Our Top Picks Three deep drawers, a low silhouette, and a $200 price tag—consider this small dresser the needle in Wayfair’s endless haystack.
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Kate McGregor, Architectural Digest, 13 May 2026
In practice, the oceans are enormous, and such tracking would require capturing an immense number of high-resolution images and processing them to locate what amounts to a nautical needle in a very wet haystack.
—David Szondy
may 12, New Atlas, 12 May 2026
But Unikowsky maintains that to find a needle in the Google haystack, Google had to sift through hundreds of millions of accounts.
—Nina Totenberg, NPR, 27 Apr. 2026
Such a search through Google’s location data begins with a haystack of hundreds of millions of phones and enables the police to filter out a few that could lead to a suspect.
—Bart Jansen, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2026
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Kate McGregor, Architectural Digest, 13 May 2026
In practice, the oceans are enormous, and such tracking would require capturing an immense number of high-resolution images and processing them to locate what amounts to a nautical needle in a very wet haystack.
—David Szondy
may 12, New Atlas, 12 May 2026
But Unikowsky maintains that to find a needle in the Google haystack, Google had to sift through hundreds of millions of accounts.
—Nina Totenberg, NPR, 27 Apr. 2026
Such a search through Google’s location data begins with a haystack of hundreds of millions of phones and enables the police to filter out a few that could lead to a suspect.
—Bart Jansen, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2026
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“Haystack.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/haystack. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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haystack
noun
hay·stack
-ˌstak 
: a stack of hay
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